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    It is the surfing championships! Five friends are competing for the same title.It is all their dreams to win this title. But who will come out on top? Tom was always the best surfer of the group. He could always seem to pull pull of a crazy trick or escape the mouth of a giant wave while making it look easy. The rest of the group thought that if any of them would have a shot at being a surfing champion it was Tom. Although later on that week they all would get that chance and nobody was…

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    laid back the tune sounds and makes me want to relax. It’s relaxing because the song reminds me of the beach and the sounds of the waves. In the song it talks about how they will be gone for the summer and to tell the teacher they have gone surfing. The summer always reminds me of the beach and all the surfers in the water. In the 1960’s California was known as the surfing state. The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, AL Jardine, Mike Love, Dennis Wilson, and Carl Wilson, wanted to go out and have fun.…

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    The Paskowitz family is a family like no other consisting of Dorian “Doc” Paskowitz. Juliette Paskowitz, and their eight boys and one girl. They’re known as the first family of surfing because all they would do was surf all the time. Surfing was more than a hobby for this family it was a lifestyle. Most kids would go to school and their parents would go to work, but in the Paskowitz family the children didn’t go to school and their parents didn’t go to work. They also didn’t live in a…

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    this exhibit contributed to a deeper understanding of the surf culture. Severson and Griffin were two passionate artists who loved nothing more than waking up in the morning and riding the waves. These two young men founded what is now known as the Surf Art Culture across America. Rick Griffin began surfing when he was 14 years old and has enjoyed the beauty of it ever since similar to other professional surfers I have learned about in class. His art started when he was in high school which is…

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    Surfing is Eddie Aikau’s favorite thing to do. He was an excellent and a brave surfer who surfed the mountain-like wave on Hawai’i. His life showed how he surfed with affection and he surfed like he is one with the ocean. He accepts challenges that goes on his life. Eddie Aikau dreamed in sailing on the Hokule’a and to share his culture and its history to the world. According to the article on Eddie Aikau Foundation, “He took on the responsibility, not only of helping to make the beaches safer,…

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    the same tune as when young. In like manner, the interval increases until a perfect pitch is heard. In this paper we will examine both the mathematics and music background for these ideas. We will examine the Fourier series representations of sound waves. Furthermore, we will see how they relate to harmonics and tonal color of instruments. The goal in this paper is aimed at exploring…

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    by an external force. Resulting in the exchange of kinetic energy and potential energy between the mass and spring of the system. An example of interference in the mechanical vibration, which are wind (done with the plane, building bridges), ocean waves (done with the ship in the sea), and ground motion because of the earthquake (action and building structures). The general two kinds of vibration are free…

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    the objective lens. So the bigger the objective lens, the more light can be collected. If you want to increase the light gathering power by 4, you can double the diameter of the lens. How bright the image is depends on how an image can spread over a big area of a lens.The bigger the area, the less bright an image, and the smaller the area, the brighter an image would be. In a telescope, the magnifying power is the ratio…

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    The blue salty ocean waves pushing against the sand and the wind whistling in your ear very loudly. Loud music playing from the giant black jukebox in the background.…

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    The Wave is all about types, and Robert Billings is no exception; he's the school loser, to use the novel's rather cruel terminology. Other students in the school are afraid to ruin their own image by hanging out with the “class creep”. Ben Ross thinks that part of his problem is living in the shadow of his ultra-popular brother, who used to attend Gordon High School. When the Wave finally comes along, Robert seizes the opportunity to make a change, but things get even worse. Although some might…

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